Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Last Historia de la Historia de la Musica Rock

Anyway, this list and the artwork next door was something I put together about five years ago as part of a mix CD I'd made for a friend.

You can see that I took the idea of putting together 100 records worth of rock history seriously--to a certain extent. Dig the Yes-antecedents disc, or the Metallica-influence one. Check out the No New York platter. Scholarly if I do say so myself.

Other shit, however, is just for laughs. Mudhoney, Mudvayne, ha! That cracks me up every time. And of course, the cover/theme.

Ah, but enough blowing of my own horn. Check it out, you should find it as thought-provoking--and as funny--as those other guys' lists.

Answers? Questions!Questions? Answers!

Feed Me With Your Feed

The La Historia Family

Sr. (R.I.P.) and Jr. (R.I.P.) and III (R.I.P.)

History Lesson -- Part II

This blog is named after my last three iPods, all of which have been well-loved despite their spotty service records. Historia Sr. was a Gen 1 Shuffle with a gigabyte of flash memory and was probably purchased in early 2005. Jr., a 1 GB Gen 2 Shuffle with the (Product) coloring that they told me would cure hunger in Africa or whatever, was purchased upon the final heat death of Sr., sometime during the long hot summer of 2007. Jr. finally passed on in Mid-August of 2010. My current unit, called III of course, is one of the only-briefly-available Gen 3s, with the controls on the headphones. It proved so popular with the masses that Apple was forced to rush in with the Gen 4 after only a few months, but I like mine just fine.
All three units, of course, were named after the seminal Pussy Galore album of 1990, which itself was named after and spoofed the long-running series of Spanish record albums, the ones you always used to find in the cutout bins, if you're old enough to know what those were.

Rastronomicals - What Does It Mean?

I'm in my 40's and live and work in South Florida.
Since 2000 or so I have kept a website about my extensive Houston Astro baseball card collection at http://www.astroland.net.
Back in '05, I founded The Crawfish Boxes, which became under my direction the web's leading blog about the Houston Astros baseball club.
Disgusted at the workload-to-pay ratio, and by the arrogance of sabermetricians, and close to devastated by the Mitchell report and its implications about the complicity of Houston Astros management, I left TCB at the beginning of 2008, promising my readers there that I would be starting a music blog.
This, finally, is that blog.

Last Child

Cool PHP script that displays my last 10 scrobbled tracks at Last.FM goes here, but your browser does not support Iframes.

Culture Vultures

But What Does Hipster Kitty Think?

Our Arbiter of Coolness here at La Historia de la Musica Rock, Hipster Kitty, would be here pontificating upon the last scrobbled track above, but evidently your browser isn't cool enought to support an iframe

TVC15

Cool PHP script that displays my top 15 scrobbled tracks at Last.FM over the last six months goes here, but your browser does not support Iframes.